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AV Proyectos 048 EUROPAN 11

More than 1,800 proposals, designed for 49 different locations in 17 countries in Europe, have been submitted to the 11th edition of Europan, the competition for European architects under the age of 40. On this occasion the topic of the competition was ‘Resonance between territories and ways of life. What architectures for sustainable cities?’, with three main thematic categories: Identity, Uses, Connectivity. A total of 36 Spanish teams have been awarded in this edition (summing nine prizes, fifteen mentions and twelve finalists), with a jury panel for Spain that included Félix Arranz, Jordi Badia, Juan Domingo Santos, Javier García-Germán, Gloria Iriarte, Jesús Irisarri, Kristine Jensen, Nuno Ravara and Gaia Redaelli. The following pages feature the five winning project designs in the six different sites located within our territory (the first prize for Sestao was not awarded); and also the three winning proposals that were submitted by Spanish teams for locations in the rest of Europe.

In pre-Columbian cultures monuments were erected towards the Sun, considered the universal essence of life, to enhance its spiritual relationship with the Earth. Under the strong sun of Mexico City we can now find the latest completion by the Spanish office Ensamble Studio: the Cervantes Theater. Surrounded by dense and scattered buildings, this theater hides in the ground with a stereotomic architecture that releases the ground floor, offering it for public use. A large metal grid rises on the site as the main piece, named ‘dovela’ (or keystone), returning the horizontal tension to the environment and providing a new scale between the ground and the sky. The massive perception of this structure becomes, when beneath it, light and subtle, extending the space to the sky and filtering sunlight. The theater experience thus begins with a ritual access that is as exciting as a constructive process in which the gravity of the metal parts of the keystone vanishes when combined as a reticular comb over the performance spaces located below.

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